John Gallagher Jr. Biography

Fast Facts

• Inspired by his enjoyment of the film Ghostbusters to take up entertainment as a career
• Made off-Broadway debut at age 15 in David Marshall Grant's Current Events at the Manhattan Theatre Club; and his Broadway debut in 2006 in Rabbit Hole, David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama
• Tony Award-winning performance for Spring Awakening (2006) also earned a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical
• Also a musician, he played in several bands while growing up in Delaware, including Old Springs Pike, and his solo performances have featured his folk-musician parents as an opening act
• Other stage work includes Broadway productions of American Idiot (2010) and Jerusalem (2011)